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This second edition of an ASCD's best-selling Action Tool gives you more than 60 tools—with tips and implementation steps—for creating and using formative assessments in every grade level and subject. A series of Teacher Tools makes it much easier for teachers to

Create and use appropriate intervention strategies for struggling students.

Give students useful feedback that advances their understanding of content.

Plus, a series of Student Tools help teach formative assessment strategies that students can use after receiving an assignment, during instruction, while completing work, and before or after a summative assessment.

All tools include clear instructions for use, suggestions for variations, and guidance on next steps. Make sure you get enough copies so every teacher can quickly learn effective ways to improve their assessment practices—leading to more targeted instruction and meaningful learning for all students.

Emphasizing applications at the secondary school level, this "teacher's-eye" view of formative assessment lays out a foundation for why this process works and provides lots of assessment strategies to use before, during, and after instruction.

Drawing from years of in-depth research, Robert J. Marzano provides you with guidelines and steps for designing a comprehensive assessment program that ensures assessments and grades lead to timely, accurate feedback on specific, standards-based learning goals.

Two of ASCD’s most popular authors, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, reveal how to create a failsafe assessment system that leads to purposeful lessons, clear indicators of student understanding, and forms of feedback that improve student performance. With this breakthrough guide to formative assessment, learn how to create purposeful lessons that tap into students’ motivation and help with their goal-setting. Discover lots of different ways to determine what students understand, what is still unclear, and how to use their mistakes to determine what to teach next.

Feedback is one of the most important variables affecting student learning. Learn how and when to provide effective feedback that helps students see where they are going, where they are now, and where they should go next in their learning.

In this guide, experts Susan M. Brookhart and Jay McTighe show how best to incorporate the formative learning cycle into everyday instruction. They offer techniques for sharing learning targets, assessment activities to use in the classroom, and strategies for providing student feedback.

Daniel R. Venables draws on his extensive experience helping schools and districts implement effective professional learning communities (PLCs) to explore this crucial but often-overlooked need. Taking a two-pronged approach to PLC facilitation, Venables offers targeted guidance both for leading the people in teacher teams and for facilitating their work.